Quotes about Influence

As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

There is nothing wrong with being a puppet if love is the one pulling the strings.

Love has no spear but conquers hearts.

Evil has insinuated itself into our very souls and rules over us from the very citadel erected to guard us against it.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?